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Thursday, November 06, 2003

Technological Leapfrog one More Time

More in the mailbox: this time Joerg.

"NEC is coming out with a credit card-sized cellphone that is just 10mm, or four-tenths of an inch, thick. The N900 also has a built-in digital camera and will be sold initially in China with Southeast Asia and Europe to follow."

Now those who follow Bonobo will know we are just fascinated by the possibility that some parts of Asia can do some technological leapfrogging. Well here we have another example. (I don't know if any of you have noticed a bit of a blogging slowdown on my part, at least in terms of my writing input: well if you look at who's doing the economics and business op-eds you will see why. Maybe this is being done by ex-pats and Barcelona residents, but it is one of the most advanced ideas of its kind, and it is happening in China!

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Edward 'the bonobo' is a Catalan economist of British extraction based in Barcelona. By inclination he is a macro economist, but his obsession with trying to understand the economic impact of demographic changes has often taken him far from home, off and away from the more tranquil and placid pastures of the dismal science, into the bracken and thicket of demography, anthropology, biology, sociology and systems theory. All of which has lead him to ask himself whether Thomas Wolfe was not in fact right when he asserted that the fact of the matter is "you can never go home again".

He is currently working on a book with the provisional working title "Population, the Ultimate Non-renewable Resource".

Apart from his participation in A Fistful of Euros, Edward also writes regularly for the demography blog Demography Matters. He also contributes to the Indian Economy blog . His personal weblog is Bonobo Land . Edward's website can be found at EdwardHugh.net.